Editing Michael Dukakis (section)

==Family==
[[File:Dukakis (17439145706).jpg|thumb|Dukakis with his wife Kitty in 2015]]

Dukakis was married to [[Kitty Dukakis|Katharine D. (Kitty) Dukakis]] for 61 years, until her death on March 21, 2025. They had three children: [[John Dukakis|John]], Andrea, and Kara. John was born to Kitty and her first husband, Phoenix businessman John Chaffetz (who later fathered former Congressman [[Jason Chaffetz]]); Michael Dukakis adopted John, Jr.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bierman |first=Noah |date=October 6, 2015 |title=Conservative GOP leader has unexpected Democratic fan: Michael Dukakis |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-chaffetz-dukakis-20151005-story.html |work=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Romano |first=Lois |date=July 20, 1988 |title=John Dukakis and the Man Who Raised Him |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/07/21/john-dukakis-and-the-man-who-raised-him/c8530671-e43e-4bd5-ba8a-217783ef6dd6/ |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pyle |first=Amy |date=1988-05-30 |title=Party Politics : Son Stresses Dukakis' Ethnic Roots at Valley Greek Festival |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-05-30-me-2350-story.html |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

During the second presidential debate on October 13, 1988, in Los Angeles, Dukakis revealed that he and his wife had had another child, who died about 20 minutes after birth. Dukakis is the cousin of Academy Award–winning actress [[Olympia Dukakis]].<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0241144/bio IMDb] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320144215/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0241144/bio |date=March 20, 2017 }} — Biography for Michael Dukakis. Retrieved October 18, 2009.</ref> In 1988, they shared that they attend both [[Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America|Greek Orthodox]] and [[Jews|Jewish]] worship services out of respect for both of the spouses' faiths.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Sessions Stepp |first=Laura |date=November 3, 1988 |title=NOMINEES' UPBRINGING AND THEIR FAITH: DUKAKIS TAKES SOME STEPS AWAY FROM STRICT ORTHODOX BELIEFS |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/11/04/nominees-upbringing-and-their-faith/0d014379-6c2f-4e0f-abe5-94c90dc4245d/ |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref>

The Dukakises continued to reside in the home that they bought in the early 1970s in [[Brookline, Massachusetts]], where they both grew up. However, they have also maintained a home in Los Angeles during the winters, when he taught at UCLA.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=17959 |title=George Bush: Appointment of Katharine D. Dukakis as a Member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council |publisher=Presidency.ucsb.edu |access-date=April 5, 2015 |archive-date=April 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403120618/http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=17959 |url-status=live }}</ref>